Comment by palmotea

>> Of course: it's not a monolithic entity. It's a composite of different parts that have different goals an interests.

> And yet if I steal your money and refuse to give it back, or let you steal it back, you'll call that hypocritical.

That's a bad analogy.

> What does the size of an entity have to do with whether this is idiotic or not?

Because it's not about the size, and I said nothing about the size. It's about it being composed of different minds, organized into different organizations, focused on different goals.

It's just not going to behave like one mind (without a lot of inefficiency, because you'd need literal central planning), because that's not the kind of thing that it is.